Direct Observation of the Gouy Phase Shift with Single-Cycle Terahertz Pulses
- 25 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (17), 3410-3413
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3410
Abstract
We report a direct observation of the predicted polarity reversal due to the Gouy phase shift for single-cycle terahertz pulses passing through a focus.Keywords
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